Walking Tour Schedule
New! Off Centre: The Wesco Acre Lots
The Wesco Acre Lots tour highlights the maritime history and its impact on development of the town in the neighborhood. The tour highlights houses along Liberty, India, Hussey and Quince Streets. The tour is a companion to the NPT's new book on the history of eighty-five houses in this neighborhood, available for sale at the NPT office. Meet at Two Union Street, cost is $10 per person.
Fridays, July & August at 9:30 a.m.
Tour Dates: July 23, 30 & August 6, 13
A Stroll Down Main Street
NPT’s classic tour provides an overview of Nantucket in its heyday and focuses on the portion of Main Street between the Pacific National Bank and the Civil War Monument. Learn about the street’s development and the area’s early residents and architectural styles, as well as how the houses have come to symbolize the island’s whaling era. Participants in the 75 minute tour will receive a copy of the NPT’s highly acclaimed history of Main Street houses. Meet at the NPT office, 2 Union Street, cost is $10 per person.
Wednesdays & Thursday, Late June - September at 9:30 am
Tour Dates: July 21, 22, 28, 29 & August 4, 5, 11
'Sconset Tour
Join NPT executive director Michael May, who shares his knowledge of this unique fishing settlement at the eastern edge of the island. The seventy-five minute tour focuses on the early “whalehouses” as well as the village’s boom as a seaside resort and actors colony at the end of the 1800s. Meet at Sconset’s Pump Square (New and Shell Streets), cost is $10 per person.
Most Fridays, June - Sept. at 4 p.m.
Tour Dates: August 13, 20
Self-Guided Walking Tour
Fifth Annual Summer Kitchens House Tour
Follow the tour along historic Fair Street, with detailed history on each home as well as the neighborhood and the evolution of the American Kitchen
"Master Mariners, Whaling Wives, and Tradesmen of the Whaling Era"
NPT’s house-marker program provides the passerby with information about past Nantucketers and their houses. Betsy Tyler, historian and local author, researched a handful of these houses from the Whaling Museum to the Civil War Monument, for a stroll of about an hour.
"A Walk Down Broadway"
A visit to Nantucket is not complete without a walk around ’Sconset’s historic core. We hope this brief review of some of ’Sconset’s earliest cottages will whet your appetite for exploring this extraordinary village.
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Other Nantucket Walking Tours
Maria Mitchel Association
Weekends through Columbus Day, 10 am to 4 pm
The historic Mitchell House, the birthplace of Maria Mitchell, America’s first woman astronomer, is a late 18th century Quaker home in its original 19th century condition. This rare architectural gem, one of the finest examples of Quaker architecture on Nantucket.
Nantucket Historical Association
May - October
Confined to the Old Historic District, the tour examines the timeline of Nantucket history, addresses the rise and fall of the whaling industry, the turn-of-the-century rise of tourism, and concludes with Nantucket’s current status as a world-class tourist destination.
